Three events will be held over consecutive days at the Austrian resort, with the length of the cross-country race increasing each time.

Competitors will follow the ski jumping phase with a five kilometre race tomorrow, before 10km and 15km action on Saturday (January 27) and Sunday (January 28).

Only the best 50 athletes will advance to Saturday before the field is trimmed further to 30 for Sunday's competition, where two ski jumps will take place.

As well as competing to win the Triple outright, athletes will also be bidding for World Cup points at each leg.

Eric Frenzel, Germany's Sochi 2014 Olympic champion and defending World Cup champion, has won all four editions of the Triple held so far but has not been in the best of form this season.

He currently languishes in eighth in the World Cup standings having won just one of the 10 races held this term, and could do with improvement with the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics next month.

"I know that it is a very good place for me," said Frenzel, who has called Seefeld his "living room" due to his success there.

"The motto is now to keep working on the jumping part and get a certain lightness and flow back. 

"There still is sufficient time until Pyeongchang to get into a really good shape."

Norway's Jan Schmid currently leads the World Cup standings after triumphing at the last two World Cups while Japan's Akito Watabe is in second position.

Germany's Johannes Rydzek, who won both the 5km and 10km races in Seefeld last year, is third.

Seefeld will also host a Cross-Country World Cup from Saturday.

Both events are serving as tests for the Nordic World Championships which will take place there in 2019.